Gold
Grainstore Brewery in Oakham, Rutland, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Summer|
Score
5.90
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A refreshing, light golden brew, whose flavour is a complex blend of mellow malt sweetness finely balanced against a subtle floral aroma and smooth bitterness.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
500ml bottle at home on 1st April 2016. Poured into an Abbot Ale glass pint tankard. Clear and clean golden body, the head a full white blanket of foam. Strange aroma and taste, Saison like farmyard esters and flavours: wasn’t expecting that. Some malty sweetness within the flavouring, honey like flavourings too. Not the best Grainstore beer for me by a long, long way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2016
at 13:39
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Draper’s Arms, Peterborough. Deep gold with a thin white head. Sweet caramel with just a smidgen of dusty dry leaves and a hint of bitterness. Really not much to it. Below par golden but drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Aug 2015
at 13:22
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Bankers Draft, Bedford. A nice-looking beer: clear pale yellow with a head that is neither too tight nor too foamy. Tropical/lemon aroma with a hint of soap. Taste is better, bittersweet and slightly astringent with a dry almost woody finish. Light mouthfeel. Better than I expected.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jul 2014
at 13:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Crosse Keys, London. Pours clear yellow with a bubby, white head. Wet hay and biscuity malts on the nose. Sweet flavor, more wet hay, a bit of corn, straw, light doughy biscuit, just the faintest hints of citrus tang. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Light sweet finish, bit more mild lemon citrus, hay and dough. Not bad, easy drinking beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Aug 2011
at 11:39
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Volunteer Arms, GBBF 208. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty aroma with some hoppy hints. Fruity malty floral hoppy aroma with some hints of honey. Has a fruity malty finish with some hoppy hints.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Apr 2009
at 09:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Dick Whittington Pub, Gloucester, 02-09-06. A beer that was really quite scrumptious until I tried Loz’s Bridge of Allan Raspberry Wheat beer and then decided I must have one of them. Back to the Grainstore, it poured a clear golden colour and was very sweet with a hop presence on the nose, which like some of the sweetness carried through into the taste, but also an underlying grapefruit flavour kept coming through. As mentioned this was very good but not as good as Loz’s Red Mist which was next up for me.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Sep 2006
at 17:06